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Dear media: Please stop normalizing the alt-right

Dear media: Please stop normalizing the alt-right

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Why does the March for Life, a rally that attracts tens of thousands of anti-abortion Americans to Washington, D.C., every year get less prominent media coverage than a fringe neo-Nazi gathering? Because institutional media and white nationalists have formed a politically convenient symbiotic relationship. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]For Jew-hating racists, the attention means they can playact as a viable and popular movement with pull in Washington.

Why does the March for Life, a rally that attracts tens of thousands of anti-abortion Americans to Washington, D.C., every year get less prominent media coverage than a fringe neo-Nazi gathering? Because institutional media and white nationalists have formed a politically convenient symbiotic relationship. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]For Jew-hating racists, the attention means they can playact as a viable and popular movement with pull in Washington.…